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the middlemen who turn scarcity into a business model, one substance or card at a time.
means a dealer is anyone who buys low, controls access, and sells high — whether the product is cocaine, blackjack hands, or vintage watches.
from from old english deal, meaning to divide or distribute; by the 1600s it meant trading goods, by the 1960s it meant something you didnt discuss with your parents.
card dealersshuffle roughly 10,000 times per shift
legal spectrumsame word covers heroin and hyundais
house edgecasino dealers never actually choose to win
etymology twistdeal once just meant fair division